Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 2 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 3 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 4 | He realized he had been babbling . |
| 5 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 6 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 7 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 8 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 9 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 10 | He claimed he had been glue-sniffing which made him sexually aroused . |
| 11 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 12 | Jobless Mohammed Aylaus , of Surbiton , Surrey , nabbed after The People handed evidence to police , threatened to shoot a prostitute and her children when he discovered she had been witholding money from him , Reading Crown Court was told . |
| 13 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 14 | He knew she had been exercising what stealth she was capable of , and he knew why , but that was purely between the two of them . |
| 15 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 16 | He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around . |
| 17 | He said I 've been giving Lee dinner money every day . |
| 18 | He said you 'd been sticking your nose in where it was n't wanted , and had n't heeded warnings from your superiors about giving up finding an espionage connection with Mills ' murder . ’ |
| 19 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 20 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 21 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 22 | He said he 'd been feeling depressed . |
| 23 | He said he 'd been driving along Akers Way in Swindon at between 40 and 60 miles per hour , when he became aware of Shaun Gooch behind him . |
| 24 | He said he 'd been meaning to invite us to dinner ever since he arrived . |
| 25 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 26 | He said he 's been pressing and pressurizing the Health Authority about the their plans for . |
| 27 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |